The following interview is a fascinating and long one, so we're going to release it a little

differently than we have before. We don't want to separate the sections by a whole week

because they're so connected, but this would be a very long release if we didn't break it up.

So we're dropping part one today and part two tomorrow so you can listen to them one after the other,

with the material still fresh in your mind.

With that said, this series discusses homicide and serial murder, so listener discretion is advised. This is the fall line. Late this summer, I became aware of a new book,

an academic release in the field of criminal behavior from Rutledge, titled Killer Data, Modern

Perspectives on Serial Murder.

I realized that I'd seen the author, Enzo Yaxick's name before. He's the founder and

director of the Atypical Homicide Research Group and one of the data scientists contributing

to the incredibly important work at MAP, the Murder Accountability Project. We've highlighted

the work of MAP before in episode titled, Mapping Murder.

But I'd most recently run into Enzo's work on Medium.com.

That's where he writes essays critiquing true crime media,

and how our perceptions of crime are shaped by popular culture.

I bought his book as soon as I found it.

It's rare that truly new, data-backed academic research on

atypical homicide and serial murder is shared with the public. Here at the fall line, we aren't

interested in delving into the psychology of serial killers, but we are interested in victims.

Who is killed? And how? and over what period of time,

and the reasons why their cases may go unsolved.

Enzo's book promised to delve into many of the misconceptions about serial murder that we scratched

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